«Dependent Development» and «Forcible Modernization»

The article focuses on the phenomena of «forcible modernization» and «dependent development». The paper considers the specific content and the systemic laws of this peculiar type of «catch-up modernization», analyzes modern scientific theories studying and systematizing this phenomenon (the concepts of F. Braudel, R.Wallerstein, Prebisch, F. Cardoso, E. Faletto, A. G. Frank). Some elements of «catch-up modernization» (the above-mentioned among them) are characteristic for the majority of «second echelon» societies in the world following the way of «secondary modernization» (including Russia), and the study of these socio-cultural patterns is, to a great extent, a matrix for understanding modern modernization processes as a whole.